Posted Tue Oct 28, 2003 5:12 pm GMT by Hank
Hey folks,
I am new to Casino poker. My second game in a “brick and mortar” poker room was this weekend at the Eldorado Casino in Reno, NV. I was playing a 3-6 table with a pot kill if a player won two hands in a row. When the kill was on the player posted a blind of 12 dollars and the betting was 6-12. My question is what does pot kill add to the game? Is there any additional strategy for playing when the kill is on?
It seems to me like pot kill presents tilt players with a good opportunity to entrench their losses from a bad beat.
By the way I won big on a pot kill when I flopped an ace high flush with the ace in my hole. I was so absorbed in the play that I did not notice two pair on the board by the river and just kept betting. Perhaps that was dumb luck but I’ll take it.
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Posted Wed Oct 29, 2003 8:13 am GMT by Dave B
I dont like pot kills. But it does throw some exciting hands in there. Usually there will be someone raising w/ nothing trying to steal the blinds. It can make for some very large pots.
Posted Wed Oct 29, 2003 9:00 pm GMT by DDiehr
First of all, it's called a kill-pot, not a pot-kill. Secondly, in every casino I've played the extra blind in a 3/6 game would be 6 not 12. The reason they have these games is to add a little bit of excitement to the game. I can see that they are kind of stupid, but in general they're good for the better players. That's because poor players are usually the ones that win two pots in a row, meaning they're the ones that are posting the two bets. Kill-pots also give you a chance to manipulate other players. Technically you should play kill-pots exactly the same way you play every other hand, but since many players will play scared, and others love to bluff in these, you can really start "play the players" in these situations.
Note: If you don't like kill-pots, you don't have to play them.
Posted Fri Oct 31, 2003 5:21 pm GMT by Hank
Kill-pot does sound a lot better than pot kill. Pot kill sounds like what happens when you smoke a lot of dope than play poker and loose all your money  Now that I know a little about them I feel pretty neutral towards kill-pots but it is just one of those nuances that makes newbies like myself find the game a tad esoteric.
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